Join us for this informational session by three distinguished speakers on ways to cope with the current technical challenges. The benefits would be in the form of new & fresh insights on Application rationalization; SOA realized through offshoring & lean IT.

2. Did you know ?
 80% of IT budgets go in just maintaining current systems…..
 53% of IT spend gets wasted due to duplication of initiatives…..
 Application Rationalization reduces IT maintenance costs by 10-30%
 Reduces operating costs by an average of 15-25%
 Provides 30-35% savings in terms of resource time, hardware upto 25%
and software upto 15%
Come and join your peers and three panelists who will
present their thoughts on these topics. It would be a
different way to spend a Thursday afternoon in a
fascinating setting that you may otherwise never visit and
you might just learn something that could change your
professional life.. Don’t miss out, its time to Discover.

3. Act 1, Scene 1: Introduction
Act 1, Scene 2: Transforming IT for Lean times
Act 1, Scene 3: Common challenges in the working model
Act 1, Scene 4: Trends & Statistics: Lean & SOA
Act 2, Scene 1: Panel Discussion
Act 3, Scene 1: Cocktails & Conversation
No of Actors – 3
Maximum Run Time – 240 minutes

4. Enter Actor 1
Alexander Peters
Principal Analyst - Forrester
Alex serves CIO professionals. He is a leading
expert on IT executives' challenges, such as the
development of IT strategies, enterprise
architectures, governance and process
frameworks, the consolidation and streamlining of
IT, change management and communications
strategies, sourcing strategies, and business
technology trends and directions.

5. Enter Actor 2
Ravi Chander
CEO – Torry Harris
Ravi has several years of experience in running medium
and large scale manufacturing, distribution and IT. He
is a passionate and firm believer in Service Oriented
Architecture as seen from the business in-terms of cost
savings and time to market. Ravi co-authored our first
white paper five years ago on how SOA intuitively lends
itself to an offshore development model and even today
works hands-on as the bridge between the technical and
business streams within our key enterprise clients

6. Enter Actor 3
Dr. Duncan Russell
Senior Research Fellow – University of Leeds
Dr Russell holds a PhD from the University of Leeds.
His research interests include Systems and Software
Architecture, Evaluation of Architecture and
Systems, Architecture Patterns and Styles such as
SOA, P2P & Security and Dependability. Dr Russell
has been leading the Systems Architecture topic in
NECTISE, a £9.5m project jointly funded by BAE
Systems and EPSRC

7. • Application Rationalization – the starting point for SOA
• SOA – is this the answer, part of it, none of it?
• High Value, Low Cost – how do we trim the stack?
• Common challenges in the working model
• Rationalization and reality
• Making the most of existing assets

8. High value, high cost High value, low cost  A bloated application portfolio adds
How do we lower Maintain these ! to the O&M costs, reducing the overall
costs? IT spend on strategic initiatives that has
Value
potential to bring greater value to the
enterprise
Low value, high cost Low value, low cost
 Application rationalization coupled
Remove these ! Are these needed? with SOA helps consolidate commonly
used functionality & enables exposing
them as services, eliminating duplicate
functionality and reducing the overall
Cost ($ + Technical fit) effort & costs for future builds
 Implementing this cost-effectively using an offshore
factory approach brings added benefits, if common
challenges in the working model are addressed

9. Welcome address : 2:00 – 2:15
1st Act : 2:15 – 3:00
Transforming IT for Lean times
Q&A : 3:00 – 3:15
Coffee break : 3:15 – 3:45
2nd Act : 3:45 – 4:10
Progressive benefits and cost savings
3rd Act : 4:10 – 4:30
Trends & Statistics: SOA & Lean IT
Q&A : 4:30 – 4:45
Cocktail Reception : 4:45 – 6:00

10. For further inquiries, contact:
soa@thbs.com